joining me now is the elizabeth colbert. she's the science writer whom al gore described as reporting from the front line of the violent collision between civilization and our planet's ecosystem. welcome to the program. that is some introduction that al gore gives you. it shows how vital and how calam calamitous your brief is. what can you tell bus about the 30-year-old warning? >> the thing that's important to understand is that it's cumulative. the more co2 you put up, the warmer the climate you are going to get at the end. what james was trying to do 30 years ago was say, don't dump all the stuff in the atmosphere. you are not going to like the result. 30 years have passed. that warning has not been heeded. in fact, emissions have gone up dramatically since the late 1980s. we are going to be coping with the consequences of that. we are seeing that right now. >> you say coping. how well are we coping? that is just really just a small handful of really what's going on right now as we speak all over the world. there's potent

colbert is next. >> good show, could be a great weekend. we'll see you on monday. captioning sponsored by cbs >> was queen elizabeth making a bold political statement aimed at president trump with her jewelry? the queen assess raised with a small green flower broach made of 14-k arat yellow gold and diamonds. it was a gift from barack obama. a coincidence? >> but that wasn't the only way the queen threw shade at trump. . tonight, spy and pee tape. plus stephen we j

colbert is next. >> good show, could be a great weekend. we'll see you on monday. captioning sponsored by cbs >> was queen elizabeth making a bold political statement aimed at president trump with her jewelry? the queen assess raised with a small green flower broach made of 14-k arat yellow gold and diamonds. it was a gift from barack obama. a coincidence? >> but that wasn't the only way the queen threw shade at trump. . tonight, spy and pee tape. plus stephen welcomes janelle monae, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) hey! nice. thank you. please, sit down! thanks, everybody! welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) happy friday, one and all. you made it! we made it, we earned it. we earned it this week could not end soon enough because all week donald trump has been insulting our allies in nato and cozying up to russia. it's like that old saying: the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. friends make you weak! ( laughter ) then yeste